D'Ya Think She's Jewish?
I have no religion now (nor even an astrological sign), but I grew up Jewish in suburban Detroit. Back then, if there was a story in the Detroit News or Free Pressabout some guy with a (could be Jewish-y) name like Schaeffer who did some bad thing, my father would turn to my mother and ask, grimly, "D'ya think he's Jewish?"

The way I see it, Jews tend to feel a sense of shame (or perhaps shame mixed with fear of persecution) when other Jews behave badly. If only we'd see that from Muslims, when, for example, some nutter of their ilk blows up a store, like this woman did in Iraq on Sunday. Via CNN:

A female suicide bomber struck Sunday in a predominantly Shiite area of central Baghdad, killing at least three people in an attack that occurred as Iraqi officials have been stressing the capital's increased security.

Police in the Masbah commercial area said they thought the woman was suspicious and asked her to stop. The woman, who wore a black Islamic robe, fled to a nearby building and the explosives detonated, said an officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.

If, as the claim goes, most Muslims are "moderates," how come there's always such deafening silence when a Muslim blows shit (and people) up in the name of Allah?

I mean, if atheists were bombing churches in the name of rational thought, I sure as hell would be speaking out against them.

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Living here in the Middle East, I can tell you that Muslims do have that sense of group solidarity that makes them feel shame whenever one of them does wrong, starting with their family and moving out in larger concentric circles through tribe, nation, and religion.

But that tribalism also makes it very easy to see anyone not in one of those circles as "the other" and therefore less worthy of protection.

Every suicide bombing , beheading , killing of innocents ,publically and privately shouted hatred of Infidels ,enforces the adage..."An addition of Muslims to a nation is a subtraction in civilization."
American Infidel